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A carregar... Test of Fire (1982)por Ben Bova
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A bit dated for my tastes, and although I typically enjoy a good science fiction thriller from the early to mid-twentieth century, many tend to hold up better to the test of time than this one. Otherwise, the story was engaging albeit simplistic. Fun to read, not terribly special. ( ) A cataclysmic plot, part of the earth is wiped out by a solar flare and the moon settlement must extract needed resources from it. This book is all about people working together--I kept saying: " just work together and it will be a win-win". However, "Test of Fire" is just as much Bova's testament to the opposite--that conflict must occur before peace can reign--a recurring theme of human kind. While some of the testosterone enriched strategies seemed far-fetched, the theme remains. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Earth has been devastated by a massive solar flare. Now a small group of survivors fights to rebuild civilization. Cities became ovens, grasslands seas of flame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet, its fiery finger killed everything in its path. Glaciers in Switzerland began to melt; floodwaters poured down on burning Alpine villages. Paris became a torch, then London. North of the Arctic Circle, Laplanders in their summer furs burst into flame as their reindeer collapsed and roasted on the smoking tundra. The line of dawn raced westward across the Atlantic, but as it did, the sun dimmed as quickly as it had flared. The Americas escaped the sun's wrath ... almost. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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